Mercedes Fontecilla

Mercedes Fontecilla (18 June 1799-5 May 1853) was the wife of Chilean president and general Jose Miguel Carrera.

Biography
Maria Mercedes Fontecilla y Fernandez de Valdevieso was born in Santiago, Chile on 18 June 1799, and she married Jose Miguel Carrera on 20 August 1814. After the Disaster of Rancagua, she and her husband emigrated to Argentina, and she followed him on all of his campaigns and was allowed to return to Chile only in 1821; her husband was executed in Argentina two years later. She remarried and had three more children, and she died in 1852 at the age of 53.